Archive - Month: June 2021

Earthshot Prize inaugural awards date announced

The inaugural Earthshot Prize awards will be held on October 17, hosted in London at Alexandra Palace and broadcast on BBC One.

Programa Floresta+ and Voluntary Carbon Markets

Young artisans in Brazil receive a masterclass in ‘turning and finishing’

The final in a series of five training courses will conclude this month, delivered through a partnership between the Environment Secretariat of Acre (Sema), Brazil and BVRio.

BVRio welcomes call for extended Producer Responsibility Schemes

BVRio welcomes the release of a statement and position paper from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation calling for implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for packaging, which has been backed by over 100 businesses.

BVRio participates in Amazon Forest Forum

Since November 2020, BVRio has been participating in preparatory meetings for the implementation of the Amazon Forest Forum, a regional forum of the Forest Dialogue, whose objective is to become a reference space for the construction of solutions for the protection and sustainable use of forests in the Brazilian Amazon.

Co-operative is a space to promote sorority

Iara Meiri de Melo Moura Silva, 40, a mother of two, began working in the recycling market over 20 years ago with her mother, who came to Rio de Janeiro from the North East aged 17 years old. Iara is one of the female leaders in waste picker cooperatives in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in the Beija Flor Cooperative. Behind her love for her profession, Iara talks about the welcoming and learning space that exists in the cooperatives.

Second legal and sustainable timber project complete

At the end of March 2021, BVRio completed its second project funded by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Forest Governance Markets and Climate (FGMC) programme. During the first project, running from 2015 to 2018, we adapted the Responsible Timber Exchange, originally developed for Brazil, to the circumstances of other tropical forest timber producer countries (Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Cameroon) and the consumer markets of the UK, EU and China.

“We are an eternal start up. We evolve constantly”

The recycling market in Rio de Janeiro is not for “amateurs”. And those in charge of the management of many of the existing cooperatives are female entrepreneurs. In the context of the covid pandemic, in particular, it is necessary to adapt, try out new processes, and take risks to generate more business. Read below one more story of our series of inspiring women who fight for the valorisation of the environmental services provided by waste collectors.